Heartbreak House

At ANTAEUS: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Diana of Dobson's, The Hothouse, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Mother Courage and her Children, Trial By Jury, Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Wood Demon. A founding member and early co-artistic director. Other Stages: Hillary and Bill (Victory Gardens Theater), The Imaginary Invalid, Glengarry Glen Ross, The First Picture Show (American Conservatory Theater), 36 Views (Laguna Playhouse), Archy and Mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (The Yard, Chilmark), Temptation, The Wood Demon (Mark Taper Forum), Sex Parasite, Largo Desolato (Taper, Too), The History Boys (Ahmanson Theatre), Durango (East West Players), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center).

At ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, Macbeth, ClassicsFests: Heartbreak House, The Matchmaker, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit.  She has worked extensively Off-Broadway and Regionally. Her favorite classical roles include Lady Utterword in Heartbreak House (Hartford Stage); Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife and Lydia Languish in The Rivals (The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C); Viola in Twelfth Night (Utah Shakespearean); and Myra in Hay Fever (Westport).  She has created and premiered many new roles including Neil LaBute’s How To Fight Loneliness,  Lucy Thurber’s Killers and Other Family, Annie Weisman’s Hold Please, Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf, Richard Greenberg’s Everett Beekin, Dael Orlandersmith’s  Bones,  as well as Trainspotting (Player’s Theatre.) The Roommate, Mr. Wolf, Absurd Person Singular, Becky Shaw, Crimes of the Heart, Lobby Hero,  among many others (South Coast Repertory).  Her voice is heard regularly on commercials, video games, podcasts, and audiobooks. TV credits include The Affair, Modern Family, I’m Dying Up Here, Shameless, Law & Order(s), ER, Boston Legal. She is also a coach, teacher, and mother. tessaauberjonois.com

At ANTAEUS: Cloud 9, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Pera Palas. Other Theater: Primary Stages, South Coast Repertory, Ensemble Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, Black Dahlia, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, L.A. Theatre Works, Pasadena Playhouse, Rogue Machine Theatre. Film: Hypnotized, Life As We Know It, He’s Just Not That Into You, Ravenous. Television: recurring on Major Crimes, Shameless, Kendra; series regular on Public Morals, Total Security, NYPD Blue. Spoken Word: Sit ‘n Spin, Rant & Rave, Spark Off Rose, as well as numerous other storytelling venues. Billbrochtrup.com

AT ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, Uncle Vanya, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Chekhov X 4. Broadway: Brooklyn Boy (MTC/SCR). Regional: The Great Leap (ACT-SF); Underneath the Lintel (Geffen Playhouse); After the Revolution (Center Stage Baltimore) Above the Fold (Pasadena Playhouse); Parfumerie(The Wallis: Inaugural Production); Coney Island Christmas(Geffen Playhouse); Future Thinking, Circle Mirror Transformation, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Wild Oats, (South Coast Rep); and others including productions for CTG, East/West Players, LATheatreCenter, Grove Shakespeare, El Teatro Campesino, The Odyssey Theatre, Stages Theatre Center (where he served as Managing Artistic Director 2000-2003), and Theatre@Boston Court. He has performed in dozens of plays recorded for LATheatreWorks. 
Arye has taught at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, and was extremely fortunate to have studied acting with Lee Shallat-Chemel, Roy London, Jose Quintero, and James Wilson.
 Arye’s film/TV credits can be found here:
imdb.me/aryegross. AryeGross.com

At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, Part One, King Lear, The Seagull. Other Theater: Shipwrecked! (Geffen Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (South Coast Repertory), Cyrano, The Homecoming, Waiting for Godot (The Matrix Theatre Company), Found Dog Ribbon Dance (Echo Theater Company). LADCC Awards for The Homecoming, The Birthday Party, Waiting for Godot. He received a Tony Nomination for his work in The Kentucky Cycle and two Emmy Nominations for his portrayal of President Charles Logan on FOX TV’s 24. He is luckily married to the Lovely Judie, he has two fairly grown children, Julia and Wilke and is the proud Grandfather of Wylder, son of his daughter-in-law Talia and Wilke.

Henri is a Los Angeles based actor, originally from Seattle, who holds both US and French citizenship.  His stage credits include work at the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory Theater, the Old Globe in San Diego, the Seattle Repertory Theater, and the Intiman Theater in Seattle. On television he starred in the Showtime series Sleeper Cell.  Other TV credits include recent appearances on Hawaii 5-O, Battle Creek, and Salem.

Peter Van Norden has appeared in Antaeus productions of Hamlet (Drama Critics Circle, The Hothouse (2019 Ovation Award for Best Actor), Macbeth, The Liar, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck, and The Zip Code Plays. Other recent appearances include: The Tempest, An Interactive Production at Shakespeare Center LA (where he also covered and performed for Tom Hanks as ‘Falstaff’ in Henry IV, Parts I and II); Red Ink at Playwrights Arena (2020 Ovation Award nomination); 1776 and Singin’ in the Rain at La Mirada Theater; and for three years as ‘Ebeneezer Scrooge’ in A Christmas Carol at the Rubicon Theatre Company. In his native NYC he appeared in Little Johnny Jones (with Donny Osmond), Hamlet (with both Kevin Kline and Sam Waterston), Jungle of Cities (with Al Pacino), Henry V (with Meryl Streep), and Saint Joan (with Lynn Redgrave). His many regional theater appearances include the lead roles in both George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (at San Jose Rep) and Misalliance (at Center Stage, Baltimore). Peter was the first American actor to appear in the title role of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III at Arizona Theatre Company (where he also appeared in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys). Film and TV roles include leads in The Accused (opposite Oscar winner, Jodie Foster), Police Academy (as Steve Guttenberg’s inept partner), The Naked Gun 2 ½, and the Stephen King mini-series, The Stand. Petervannorden.com

Amelia White is a proud member of Antaeus.  She has appeared on the Antaeus stage in You Can’t Take it With You, Tonight at 8:30 and Penny for a Song. She works in theatre all over the US. Most recently in Blithe Spirit at Northern Stage in VT and in Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike at the Denver Centre, CO.  She  appeared in Silent Sky and Misalliance at So.Coast Rep. (Costa Mesa, CA). Broadway credits include award winning shows Crazy For You in which she created the role of Patricia Fodor, and The Heiress. She won the Theatre World Award for The Accrington Pals (Hudson Guild Theatre, NY) She Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London and is married to Antaean Geoffrey Wade. AEA member.

At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Uncle Vanya, Top Girls, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Ovation Nomination), Peace in Our Time, King Lear, Cousin Bette and Pera Palas. With South Coast Repertory: Going to A Place Where You Already Are (World Premiere), Five Mile Lake (World Premiere), 4000 Miles, The Parisian Woman (World Premiere), In the Next Room or the vibrator play, A Wrinkle in Time, Emilie (World Premiere) The Heiress and Doubt, a parable. Her other theater credits include Cock at Rogue Machine Theatre (Ovation Award); We Are Proud to Present... at The Matrix Theatre; The Savannah Disputation, Educating Rita and Trying at The Colony Theatre Company; The Cherry Orchard at Center Theatre Group. Film and Television credits include: You Bury Your Own, Zerophilia, Headless Horseman, The Waterhole, Cold Case, Medium, Modern Family, Break a Hip and Kittens in a Cage. She has also narrated several audiobooks including The Vampire Diaries series as well as Sara B. Larson’s DEFY series. She will be featured alongside 8 other LA-based theater actors in the documentary LOVE 99, narrated by Helen Mirren. Mozo earned her BFA from Rutgers University and studied at The Globe Theatre in London.

At ANTAEUS: American Tales. Other LA Theater includes: Of Good Stock, Elemeno Pea, Misalliance, Collected Stories (South Coast Repertory); Boeing Boeing, Dinner With Friends (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts); The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder (The Theatre @ Boston Court); Taking Steps (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble); Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); The Seagull, Orlando (The Actors Gang) and many others. Film/TV: I Am I, Callers, Noise, The United States of Leland, Self Storage, Sons of Anarchy, Castle, Numb3rs, Gilmore Girls. melanielora.com. Twitter: @missmelanielora.

At ANTAEUS (Directing): Cymbeline, The Tempest, The Hothouse; (Acting): The Zip Code Plays, Three Days in the Country, Hedda Gabler, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, The Liar, Patience, The Wood Demon. Other directing credits: Ensemble Theatre Company, A Noise Within, The Jewel Theatre, North Coast Repertory, Playwright’s Arena, PICT (Pittsburgh). Other acting credits: South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, The Ensemble Theatre Company, The Harold Clurman Theatre, PICT, Kinetic Theatre Company, ACT (Seattle), Shakespeare Festival LA, The Old Globe, The Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The American Conservatory Theatre. TV: Recurring roles on the new Frasier and Desperate Housewives, and guest stars on NCIS and many others. M.F.A., The American Conservatory Theatre. Recipient of the 2011 Lunt Fontanne Fellowship.